Peter Dorsey, Chair — dorsey@msmary.edu |
 | B.A. St. Joseph's University; Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania Areas of Interest: Early American literature, including the literature of the American Revolution, African-American literature, the American Renaissance and American autobiography. |
| Thomas Bligh, Assistant Professor of English — bligh@msmary.edu |
 | B.A. Mount St. Mary's University; M.A. Miami University Ph.D Florida State University Areas of Interest: creative writing, twentieth-century American literature, creative non-fiction, post-modern British novel |
Robert Ducharme, University Professor — ducharme@msmary.edu |
 | B.A., M.A. University of Notre Dame; M.A. John Carroll University; M.A. New York University; Ph.D. University of Notre Dame Areas of Interest: film study, English Romanticism, Russian fiction, Japanese literature and culture, Latin American fiction, and modern Irish literature |
| Mary Hamel, Professor of English — hamel@msmary.edu |
 | B.A. University of Washington (Seattle); Ph.D. The Pennsylvania State University Areas of Interest: ancient and medieval European literature, Chaucer, King Arthur, and the English language |
| Sr. Anne Higgins, Lecturer - ahiggins@msmary.edu |

| B.A. St. Joseph College, Emmitsburg MLA The Johns Hopkins University Areas of Interest: creative writing, poetry, modern and contemporary poetry, Freshman Seminar |
| Carol Hinds, University Professor - hinds@msmary.edu |
 | B.A. Saint Mary College; M.A. (English) University of Kansas; M.A. (Liberal Studies) St. John's College; Ph.D. University of Virginia; Harvard University Areas of Interest: eighteenth-century British literature, The Catholic Imagination, Victorian literature |
| Roberta LePage McFadden, Assistant Professor of English - mcfadden@msmary.edu |
 | B.A. St. Olaf College; M.A., Ph.D. Fordham University Areas of Interest: seventeenth-century British prose and nineteenth-century Romanitc poetry |
| Indrani Mitra, Associate Professor of English — mitra@msmary.edu |
 | B.A. Presidency College (India); M.A. University of Calcutta; Ph.D. Kent State University Areas of Interest: post-colonial literature from Africa, India, and the Caribbean countries; non-Western women writers; gender and cultural studies |
| Sarah Scott, Assistant Professor of English — sscott@msmary.edu |
 | B.A. University of Colorado, Boulder; M.A., Ph.D. University of Arkansas, Fayetteville Areas of Interest: Shakespeare and early modern drama, sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English literature, cultural studies, gender and sexuality studies |
| David Wehner, Assistant Professor of English — wehner@msmary.edu |
 | B.A. Williams College; M.A. University of Colorado at Boulder; Ph.D. University of Minnesota Areas of Interest: nineteenth- and twentieth-century American literature, history and theory of secularization |